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Philippines summons China envoy over navy ship's 'illegal intrusion'

A handout photo taken on Feb 18, 2022 shows a Chinese PLA-N Yuzhao-class amphibious transport dock vessel transiting the Torres Strait in Northern Australia. The Philippines said a Chinese Navy ship entered waters within the archipelago without permission earlier this year. (Photo by Handout / Australian Defence Force / AFP)

The Philippines said Monday it had confronted Beijing's ambassador after a Chinese navy ship was caught illegally "lingering" in the Southeast Asian nation's waters, in the latest diplomatic row between the two countries.

Manila and Beijing are locked in a territorial dispute over the South China Sea, which Beijing claims almost its entirety, but the Philippines' foreign ministry said the Chinese vessel entered its archipelagic waters "without permission".

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